Lost Towns of the Pine Barrens

Part three in the series on iron making.

As the mixture of bog ore, charcoal and flux was heated, the flux would float the impurities to the top where they would be raked off. If you visit some of the lost towns like Atsion and take a walk in the woods you can still see some […]

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Part two in the series on Iron Making in the NJ Pinelands.

New Jersey’s Pine Barrens had all the needed components to support a thriving iron industry. The highly acidic pine needles on the forest floor leached acidic rain water down through the sandy soil and the iron laden clay beneath it. That bog ore built […]

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The next several posts are going to deal with iron making in the New Jersey Pine Barrens.

From the mid 1700’s until the late 1800’s New Jersey’s Pine Barrens was a hot bed of iron making. The Pine Barrens has a unique ecology. Most forested areas progress over time from grasslands, to brush , to softwoods […]

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The Burlington County Times reports restoration work on the Atsion Mansion in Shamong should be completed by this summer. I have been trying to get information on this story since the bid procedure was announced months ago. But unfortunately the Public Information Officers in the Press Office at the State Department of Environmental Protection apparently […]

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